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(c). Hatchets resembling d in form, but much thinner and 
usually more highly polished than either a or 3; such as Nos. 
17, and 19 to 22. 
A 38. 
Nos. I and 2 are flint hatchets. 
Stone Gouges. 
Nos. 3 to 13 are flint and stone gouges. Nos. 3 to 5 are 
unfinished. No. 8 is a good specimen ; the present state of its 
edge shows that it has been used and then reground at a 
different angle. 
The butt end of No. 7 is much bruised from use. 
Flint gouges, although common in the north of Europe, are 
rarely found in Great Britain or Ireland. Stone gouges have 
been met with in North America. 
Stone Chisels. 
Nos. 14 to 20 are flint chisels. These tools are rarely found 
in Scandinavia made of any other material than flint. Professor 
Nilsson, however, possesses a chisel of diorite. No. 20 is 
very broad, and in form connects the chisels with the hatchets. 
No. 14 is unfinished ; it is rudely chipped into form. Nos. 16 
and 18 are bruised at the butt end from use. 
Whetstones and Polishing Stones. 
No. 21 is a whetstone similar to No. 4, Case C 22. It is 
grooved from use. Nos. 22 and 23 are whetstones of dif- 
ferent forms. Nos. 24 to 26 are polishing-stones ; they 
belong, however, to a late period ; the surface of No. 24 is much 
smoothed from use. Not less than a hundred similar whet- 
stones have been found in the peat-mosses at Thorsbjerg, and 
Nydam, in South Jutland, associated with objects of the Early 
Iron Period. It has been suggested that the groove which 
is worked round these objects served for the reception of a 
cord by which they were carried hanging from the girdle. 
Nilsson classes these objects as hammer-stones ; he considers 
that the edges of stone tools have been struck against the 
grooved sides of these implements, in order to sharpen them. 
